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In the Middle East, the war no longer takes place only on the ground with missiles and drones, it is also played out online, with clips generated by artificial intelligence.
It is a total, daily war that Americans and Iranians are waging on social networks, three months after the start of the conflict initiated by American-Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic. Their weapons: videos, often generated with artificial intelligence, to try to impose their narrative. Their battlefield: our screens. Clips of Donald Trump bombing against the backdrop of Macarena to the Lego warriors of the Tehran regime, franceinfo reveals behind the scenes of this cyberwar, in which Iran surprised with its methods and its organization.
The documentary Hormuz, the AI Wardirected by Maxime Laurent, Lise Vogel, Florian Le Moal, Alexandra Cosqueric, with editorial specialists from franceinfo and the story by Loïc de La Mornais, is broadcast Friday May 29 from 9:30 p.m. on channel 16.
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